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The Civil War impacted President Lincoln greatly. Although the secession of the South was not entirely his fault, as Commander-in-Chief, he had to assume responsibility for all the deaths the war brought. He had to endure family strife, since his wife was a member of a slaveholding family and nearly all of her relatives had some role in the Confederacy. While it was obvious the Confederacy was against him, members of his own party, like the Radical Republicans as well as the Abolitionists who elected him were openly antagonistic against him because they believed he was being too soft on the south.

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